By the way, I have the same issue as mr wzrd - on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
desktop edition. I *do* have a libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0, but it is under
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

2014-11-04 10:06 GMT+01:00 Andrea Ferretti <ferrettiand...@gmail.com>:
> Congratulations for the great work!
>
> I would be glad to see a 1.0 release, if anything just for
> psychological reasons when I show Factor to my colleagues :-)
>
> Are there any plans to move the distribution to a model with a core +
> a package manager? I think at this point it would benefit the
> community if there was an official way to provide new libraries
> without being involved in the core. Package managers for image-based
> languages are slightly delicate, but I think the model used by
> Monticello+Metacello in the Smallatlk community works pretty well.
>
> Best,
> Andrea
>
> 2014-11-03 13:27 GMT+01:00 John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>:
>> We've been brainstorming a few things. Not sure how much of it will be done 
>> and in what order, but some of the features I'd like us to work on:
>>
>> - new parser to allow parsing cross-platform vocabularies without loading 
>> them and development of useful refactoring tools
>>
>> - improve compiler for performance of fixnums, loops, and generic dispatch, 
>> possibly leveraging LLVM
>>
>> - faster namespace variables (which are used in a lot of places) using a 
>> different lookup algorithm
>>
>> - unification of core and basis to allow using higher level language 
>> features earlier in the bootstrap process
>>
>> And more vocabularies and libraries, etc. Plus we love contributions so if 
>> anyone else has some ideas here, we'd love to hear.
>>
>> Best,
>> John.
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 3, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hurra!
>>>
>>> Any plans for 0.98 or, dare I say it, 1.0? Factor feels like a very
>>> solid language to me and it's just lacking in polish.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist
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